Kathryn Bishop is an Associate Fellow of the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, where she directs and teaches on programmes for leaders who are working to improve their organisations and communities.
She has over 35 years’ experience working with organisations undergoing major change, in both the public and the private sector, and with individuals leading those changes. Her background includes IT and HR and she has worked as a line director and manager, a project manager and as a consultant. She has also taken on a number of non-executive directorships in government.
Kathryn was appointed as the first Chairman of the Welsh Revenue Authority in April 2017. She received a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in June 2021 for services to diversity and public administration.
Her work is particularly focused on education and development for children, young people and adults, as well as in support of women. She combines her teaching at Oxford with voluntary roles in education at nursery, primary, and secondary school level. She is a governor at Collegiate School and Chairman of the Dean Close Foundation, a charitable group with schools and nurseries in Gloucestershire and Wales.
She is married with two sons and lives in Gloucestershire.